skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, I noticed that as well.

In the UK, we were not taught to use two spaces after a full stop, but as my text files are for me only, they are fed through a formatting program before sharing, I may try this.

Use of 'semantic line feeds' obviates the issue. See

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4642395

Random information: the Bash formatting utility follows the two spaces convention. The 'par' program uses one space. On Ubuntu...

keith@xeon:~$ fmt textfile | gedit

or

cat textfile | par j | gedit

The latter produces justified monospace text for that retro look.
Hey Robert. That's awesome. Looking forward to hearing from you.
The trouble is, larger apps are logical extensions of smaller apps in Flask. I find it rather pleasant to use Flask to build large RESTful APIs, but I don't find there to be any interesting challenges or insights that would make it worthwhile to produce an article relating the experience. I'm afraid it's the same way for many people I know who are using Flask to build large APIs at their companies - the process is so predictably boring that I doubt any of them have even considered writing about it.
"Some way of formalizing or aggregating the concept"... like StartupCrawl? :-) http://startupcrawl.com/ (My startup, Sauce Labs, participated in the crawl in 2009 -- it coincided with RubyConf that year, so there was a lot of flow-over traffic from RubyConf go-ers.)
I actually found myself disagreeing with that. There are many great ideas that were killed by corporate bureaucracies before they had a chance of being shipped.
Is it my imagination or does it spell out google at some point?

edit: I've realized that certain blocks are darker blue in the shape of the word Google.
I've not used it myself personally, but it seems like it doesn't really do anything that will actually shorten development time, as you'll still be typing a fair amount to get references to your views established with the annotations. It seems like it could help with making more activity setup consistent, but it is actually more useful in practice to set up base classes for fragments, activities, and services as you'll likely be configuring class-wide defaults in those places anyway.
Do they? Even so, they will remineralize at the same rate regardless of the substance which dissolved them in the first place, right? (Ignoring, of course, that the ongoing presence of bacteria feeding on sugars may counteract the remineralization). The experiment would still demonstrate which substance destroys teeth the fastest.
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I'm fully invested in Sublime Text 2. Works on Mac / Linux / Win (I use all three regularly). I write code in a lot of different languages -- it has plugins for 95% of everything I need to do. The universal applicability of ST2 makes it worth investing in (learning all the keyboard shortcuts, etc).

I haven't tried Scripted, but I'm happy with ST2, and the reasons they give for building it vs. using something like ST2 don't jump out at me.
Open source is interesting, it is a philosophy. I first noticed this when I saw the backlash that was directed at Makerbot when they went against the reprap community and decided not to open source parts of their new replicator 2 printer. When you mess with someones philosophy you have to be very careful.

The decision to open source is not something you can ever backpedal on without serious backlash.
So you think posts like this shouldn't be on HN, but comments like this should be?

That's the best way of making that point that I've ever seen.
I don't think the original article was very good, and I'm glad Laura has had positive experiences (plenty of us guys do try to make sure its a welcoming environment for everyone). There are certainly plenty of well-meaning people out there who have subconscious biases (and plenty of assholes too) so I think at least its good that the topic is brought up occasionally.
Yes, the emptying of the mind is the style of oriental meditation. In contrast, there is an old tradition of Christian meditation which attempts to fill the mind completely with one concept.

For example, in the medieval Lectio Divina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectio_Divina), one takes a few words of scripture and repeats them and considers them and ponders them for many minutes. The Cloud of Unknowing recommends doing something similar with the concept of God, or with a simple word such as "love".

This is actually a pretty tough mental exercise to do for even just 20 minutes.
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Are you going to add a way to convert urls to pdfs? It would be awesome to create a pdf of a webpage from the push of a button.
You might be interested in this annual compilation http://americanalpineclub.org/p/anam
But that's my point exactly. There are no other employees at this stage. Or if there are, it's a co-founder or other high-equity employee.

The whole reason to do this is to keep from having to hire an employee (yet) to handle this function.
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You're assuming the network has to cover the whole of the low-density country. The United States is an overall low-density country with high-density regions within it. The average density is pushed down by huge swaths of effectively empty territory between those regions.

Using HSR to facilitate movement within the high-density regions can make sense, even if using it to facilitate movement from one high-density region to another doesn't.
Yeah I agree, that is definitely no defense. I just don't know if I would even consider a lawsuit like this valid. But I'm not a lawyer nor am I in Romania so I'm speaking completely from opinion.
If Monty Python were allowed a medical license....

"Contributors GCSS had the original idea. JPP tried to talk him out of it. JPP did the first literature search but GCSS lost it. GCSS drafted the manuscript but JPP deleted all the best jokes. GCSS is the guarantor, and JPP says it serves him right."
I don't doubt that Boeing and Airbus have a lot of smart people. My whole point is that there are things to optimize for besides brute efficiency. I'm sure you could do a lot better than a 787 in terms of gallons of fuel per passenger-mile. I'm also sure that such an airliner would never sell, because people don't want to take three days to cross the USA by airplane.
What about comparative effectiveness? For example, if we did an experiment where we started subjects on the following regimes, which would have the greatest effects on impulse control:
1) Learning to program (assuming the subject is not already a coder
2) meditation
3) aerobic exercise

Then we would have to figure out ways to measure "impulse control."

Such a study would have a lot more credibility than the author's contention that "I control impulses while meditating; therefore, meditation makes me more productive."

One controls impulses during a wide variety of activities; the burden is on the pro-meditation crowd to provide evidence that meditation is an especially valuable form of practicing impulse control.
Your subconscious mind is still planning your future. And it may do better when not disturbed by your attention.
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I agree with your sentiment, but a large factor in tooth decay is bacteria that live in your mouth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_caries

This seems like what the article gets wrong as well. What you drink and eat impacts the environment in your mouth where bacteria flourish which in turn impacts tooth decay. There just isn't such a direct cause/effect relationship between pH/sugar and tooth decay, although they are certainly strongly correlated.

As a result, I'd take this article as a loose framework rather than a true scientific ranking.
The future never comes as planned.
When I meditate concentrating on my breath,my mind interferes with my breathing and it becomes uncomfortable if I dont relax

I believe this acts as some negative feedback for the control freak self inside me. Every time I exert unnecessary control it becomes uncomfortable.

Meditating long enough may show me that the mind will wander in its own ways regardless of what I maybe doing at the moment, and its best for me to let it wander on its own ways and focus on what I am doing. Thus helping me understand that all the thoughts about ego, and judgements is just come process on the sidelines, and different from the core of me, the core that is focused on what I am doing.

This is the impression I have of where meditation is taking me.
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"GitHub hit one of the great gushers of the last decade (and let's face it, they mainly hit it for reasons that had little do with, um, their actions)"

Really? If they didn't do anything why would you even be paying them your $100 to begin with. They essentially built a social network around version control with an amazing user experience. Do you remember Sourceforge? Which would you rather use?

It isn't fair to discount the value of GitHub or the effort they put into building a great product just because it costs more than you want to pay.
It may be what you consider the "acceptable definition" of fruit juice, but it is not the definition in common use.

Also, you are not evolutionarily adapted to eat compounds. You are evolutionarily adapted to eat foods. And fruit juice is not a food you are evolutionarily adapted to eat. It is very different, biologically, from eating an actual fruit.
> Decompiling Field Trip reveals some secrets about the new Maps API. The application tag in the app manifest references “com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY” ...

I can't believe this person didn't realize the key he published in his blog (the part I didn't copy) is a particular developer's unique API key for Google Maps access -- and now it's been made public.

Requiring a developer-specific API key to access Google maps is hardly a "secret". And now there's one more non-secret.
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What is it with all the Game of Life posts lately? There seems to be a new one every other day. Not that it's a bad thing, I think the GOL is a marvellous thing and the SmoothLife video was mesmerizing. I'm just wondering why they all pop up at the same time?
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I was actually just talking to someone else about that over email. It's definitely possible, I just haven't had time to explore it yet.
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I completely agree. I call myself a "web developer" because that's the most accurate description of what I do. "web programmer", "software engineer", and "systems engineer" are all too narrow.

On top of programming, I also do system ops, ui design, customer service (and client service), project management. Developing a web site takes a lot more than programming, especially if the team is small.
I don't think there can even be another Jobs just like there can't be another Rockefeller. The best is that there is someone Jobs-like in the future. Even if there was a Jobs, I don't think he'd choose Y Combinator, he'd probably find a good cofounder (the Woz) and they'd do it on their own for as long as possible.

Assuming there is another Jobs, he doesn't walk in the door he applies and gets his interview with Woz. I think they'd be funded, yes. I don't know that the YC panel would recognize them as being any bigger than any other good looking team of founders, though.
Checkout http://openco.us/, they are doing a kickoff today where you can spend an hour visiting a startup in their list, from airbnb to zynga and beyond
I worry about how many kids will try to boost their video game performance by trying the DIY kit at home.
Read Pragmatic thinking and Learning for good explanation as well.. Meditation improves focus... this is not based on reports or data but from my own experience. That is always the best proof for me.. trying it myself.
http://www.reddit.com/r/tdcs
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tooth.asp suggests that submerging teeth in any acidic substance (e.g. orange juice) will soften and eventually dissolve them. Since this does not adequately replicate conditions in the mouth, it would not be useful to determine how such substances affect enamel.
I don't think you read the post properly? It said he was getting an iPhone so he wouldn't be tempted to do development.
I'm sure there is a "game of life" like biological algorithm that can explain this and the flow of articles in the form of "X in GO" or "Don't use MongoDB" or "Y in pure CSS"

e.g. perhaps people see what's top on HN (a legitimate article) and search on the topic, and increase the probability of more posts in that topic, also, psychologically, if A is popular, then when seeing something that looks like A you might up vote it just by assuming it's popular too.
This seems to be the core of the argument:

To get a better model, we either need make the learning algorithm more complex/write more code (which is human work), or we need to gather more or better sample data (which requires human work as well).

Assuming this is a correct formulation, I don't see why this necessarily poses problems. The gathering of data in particular seems like a process that can be supercharged. You aren't restricted to one human speaking into the computer's ear. You have (to start) the entire internet to consume. If you want/need more structured data, you could hypothetically organize dozens or hundreds of individual humans processing information for the 'mind'.

And once the AI has reached some valuable state, you can then start cloning it (presumably a simple process of copying electronic state elsewhere). The one or more limited AI's you've created could then be tasked with generating the next step up the chain - even if that is simply learning to process and ingest ever vaster amounts of information.

I'm not a wild-eyed futurist, but I either don't get or don't buy the fundamental objection here.
The Field Trip app belongs to Google right? So that would be google's api key then?
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Taboo has a trademark, not a copyright. So everywhere I use the word Taboo, I add the trademark symbol (except one screen, which has been fixed but not submitted).
If you ever stop by Minneapolis, let me know! ...If you are really fromToronto you'll like my site http://HockeyBias.com ! :) The layout is a combo of DrudgeReport/ScriptingNews. The site tracks hockey news from September through the last Stanley cup game each year.

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Will look into that, thanks. Out of debugging curiosity, jailbroken?
Willpower is a muscle. By wanting to do things, but focusing on meditation, you're building up your willpower muscle.
> So I made a demo and started showing my co-workers what it was and realized that some of them had never seen the Game of Life before.

So let me get this straight, there are Google software engineers, that passed all the 3 month interview process which some considered the toughest in the world, and they never have heard of conway's game of life.

this makes me feel a little better about myself now.
Good line of thinking, I happen to agree, hence I believe it is better to stay in the here-now with whatever activity one does at any given moment.
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It appears that there is some sort of spawning behavior near the darkened "Google" tiles. I paused, turned off all the cells in the region (taking into account wrapping from the other side) and let it go. Cells started activating near the 'e'.
I'll be happy to get recommendations on which of these videos stand out!
He also killed Apple's wireless mouse development because he claimed that "nobody wants a wireless mouse." That's why Apple was one of the last to release a wireless mouse.

He was right most of the time, but not all of the time.
> "You also have that with images, so that does not apply."

No, it very much still does. The only sort of resizing you get with images is whatever neatly fits within a 9-patch.

Which is to say, if your center patch is non-uniform (gradient? textured surface?) you lose resizability.

So yes, if you design a very standard UI that sails very close to the default iOS look and feel, you will be using stretchable images for almost everything. Which is to say, single-line elements that do not resize vertically at all, vertical linear gradients as an aesthetic theme instead of texturing (which is becoming a thing now), etc.

The moment you depart those shores though, images start becoming a liability instead of an asset, and you'll need to do a lot more custom work to get your widgets to resize properly.
> Radical gender feminists took over feminism and alienated women.

Bullshit. The third wave took over feminism and included homosexuals, transgender and transexual women, and men. Anyone who feels alienated by feminism is being lied to.
> Each comment has exactly one pair of transposed letters. There is no product being pitched, and no url (we don't display or link to email address either). It's baffling.

Sounds like they're doing what's known as "Bayesian poisoning" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_poisoning) ahead of time to open the door for later link spamming.
The key is linked to the signing key of the app. So even if they have the key they still need the signing key to use it.
While this role is most definitely necessary, I've found it's no fun to be that person, even when others value the dissent.

I've voluntarily taken on this role in the past when I've joined a company or project where nobody else was shooting down bad ideas or playing devil's advocate. After a while it feels like you're always on defense while others are bringing ideas to the table.

But of course those are minor issues when the alternative is every crazy idea making it past the filter, and someone's got to do it.
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author: there's no fundamental objection. i'm only pointing out that throwing faster computation at the problem doesn't necessarily solve it. right now all the work essentially needs to be done by humans.

If you follow the link to the lower bound to learning by example, you'll see that it's really hard to learn by example if you haven't pre-encoded ideas about the interpretation into the reading program. Without prior knowledge, you need lots and lots and lots of examples.

All the information that humanity has ever stored on digital media is likely not remotely enough to reconstruct a human mind from.
The site was in super-alpha. I think it was intentional.
Yes, it was quite nice the first time I scrolled down, then became somewhat distracting.

The fade in happens after you scroll past the relevant heading for me (Firefox, Ubuntu 12.04, 1080p screen).

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/stevelosh.png

and

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/stevelosh2.png

show what I mean.

I actually do like the marginalia, like in Tufte's books, side boxes as a sort of commentary or summary of the main text. I'd prefer them to always be there. Lets face it, on a widescreen monitor of modest resolution, the page looks thin otherwise.
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I could have written that comment (except for the brother part -- I was the one who introduced my friends to DOOM). So many good memories doing 4-player LANs... Wish I had a time-machine sometimes..
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Doing the dishes can be fun if you pay attention to the textures, temperatures, smells and sounds.

I can't wait to do the dishes when I get home today.
There are many style guides[0] that treat i.e., e.g. and the other Latin abbreviations specially in always punctuating them - it's rather rare to find someone talking about the former U.S.S.R., T.C.P. packets, or N.A.S.A.'s missions to the I.S.S. - to all intents & purposes, ie is the exception, not the rule. It's worth pointing out that i.e. is exceptionally difficult to type on a lot of mobile devices.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Abbre...
I liked that opener, myself, but you're probably right.

Maybe we should look on this as an opportunity to alter our vocabulary. I bet most of the people on this board are like me -- when they were twelve, they had a vocabulary like a college graduate. But somehow as adults we decided it was cool to talk like twelve-year-olds.
Hmm, this makes me wonder; should a low carb diet help cure gum disease and prevent cavities since you're providing so little sugar to the bacteria?

In fact do you need to brush and floss when on a low carb diet?

Has this been studied?
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From conception to deployment (with documentation). Pretty sweet tool.
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There is a Wordpress plugin called Spam Free Wordpress that implements a variation of this and has effectively cut spam on my sites to zero.

The plugin improves on the method described by randomly generating the value of the additional token parameter, and keeping a list of all generated tokens. If the server receives a comment post request which does not contain one of the generated tokens, then that comment is guaranteed to be automated spam.
This is an analogy, it may be true or false.

Download speed is a muscle. By downloading more files you're building up your download speed.
Sorry that was a bug. It's fixed now.
I highly recommend to take a 10 days retreat in a Vipassana[1] meditation center. I know that 10 days is a lot to ask but in my opinion is well worth the effort.

I've been there twice in the past three years. I thought that I understood everything the first time. Boy, was I wrong.

[1] http://www.dhamma.org/
Looks great. If you added docx and pptx to the inputs then you could easily compete with some big names (your prices are very competitive).
I'm curious why you seem to be indirectly asserting that learning to program and/or aerobic exercise will have some effect on impulse control.
Oh, come on. Meditation is not the way to "exercise willpower muscle" (running is the way to do so).

Meditation is the way to learn that your flow of thoughts is not you, it is mere side-effect, a smoke from an engine, a screen-saver, or just idle-running.

Yes, the practice of meditation is beneficial for will-power and self-control, but it is not the goal.) Goal is realization that what you think you are, is just a running total of all previous conditioning, and the ''real you'' could be "seen" is in an instant between two thoughts.

Any good ''eastern'' teacher will tell you that.
In my experience, the sort of effort you put in and the work that you do in planning in this multitasking, unfocused mode is not nearly as immediately urgent or productive as it feels at the time. If you are able to cultivate a degree of concentration and mindfulness, then when the time is appropriate you are able to consider whatever matter actually demands your consideration, and respond with sound judgment and openness.

EDIT: Perhaps more to the point, many of the useful decisions or notions that might have arisen from thinking about the future or the past while washing dishes tend in my experience to arise more or less of their own accord, in their own time. Much of the mind tends to think itself once you let it.
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Then there's also context to fallback on, but that would require a human parser.
For those who might be wondering, one such difference is the presence of fiber in fruit, but the lack of fiber in fruit juices.